Peter Carey’s contemporary classic is a dazzling comic account of one man’s unbelievable exploits across the Australian continent
Peter Carey
Peter Carey is an Australian author who has won the Booker Prize twice, for Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang
He has also won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize twice (for Jack Maggs and True History of the Kelly Gang), and the Miles Franklin Literary Award three times (for Bliss, Oscar and Lucinda and Jack Maggs). He was also shortlisted for The Man Booker International Prize in 2009 for his entire body of work.
He is an Officer of the Order of Australia and a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was born in Victoria, Australia, and lives in New York.
True History of the Kelly Gang
Winner of The Booker Prize 2001
- By
- Peter Carey
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- Faber & Faber
Author Peter Carey skilfully makes art from the life story of his country’s greatest outlaw, giving his true measure of that ‘best bloody man’
Other nominated books
Peter Carey’s rich and endlessly inventive tale about two unusual characters in 19th-century Australia won the Booker Prize in 1988
Shifting from the rural wilds of Australia to Manhattan via Tokyo, this is Peter Carey’s brilliant and moving story of art, fraud, friendship and redemption
Peter Carey’s exploration of the great adventure of American democracy, which brings to life the unusual relationship between two extraordinary characters
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